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4 I Contents bne November 2019
Senior editorial board
Ben Aris (Berlin) editor-in-chief & publisher
Clare Nuttall (Bucharest) news editor
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Eurasia & Southeastern Europe
William Conroy (Bucharest)
editor
Central Asia
Kanat Shaku (Almaty) bureau chief
Eastern Europe
Sergei Kuznetsov
(Kyiv, Minsk)
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(London)
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6 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
10 Samsung announces €1.2bn expansion of Hungarian EV battery plant
11 Slovak financial administration uncovered the biggest illegal factory in central Europe
11 Chinese to invest €300mn in new plant in Czech Republic
12 Georgia’s booming, little regulated gambling industry doubled in size during 2018
13 Aeroflot's lowcoster Pobeda, fastest growing but could hike prices on flights to Russia
14 Third of large Russian oilfields unprofitable: Rosnedra
14 SCM and Raga reach settlement in Ukrtelecom dispute
15 Ukraine's PrivatBank wins London case blocking oligarch Kolomoisky from unfreezing $2bn in assets
16 Halkbank indictment ‘huge matter for Turkey’s Erdogan as alleges rongdoing right to top of administration’
17 Romanian stock market's elevation to emerging status opens up a diverse market
18 IMF improves Ukraine’s 2019 growth outlook to 2.99%, below the 3% needed to trigger warrant payments
19 Russia lost $7.7bn on dumping US dollar from reserves
19 Russia, Turkey sign deal to
use own currencies in payments and settlements
20 Czech billionaire Kretinsky acquired German TV and radio company ProSieben
20 Czech PPF reportedly buys CME’s assets in CEE
21 Czech R&D posted record growth of €500mn in 2018 to €3.9bn
21 Driverless cars of Russian Yandex hit 1mn mileage mark
22 Russia's Ozon online retailer launches express delivery
22 Russian taxi market seen growing 6% to $11bn in 2019
23 Extreme Digital, eMAG merger cleared
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